I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThis world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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